'Narrated by the glorious scholars' (qasida 15:47)

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Great Ancestors' Books

Since we are constantly in need for the non-distorted books of our predecessors, and since some irresponsible groups had intentionally or unintentionally printed distorted books and spread them either in the markets or on the internet, there aroused an insisting need to find reliable sources for the books and knowledge of the virtuous predecessors. So, we are nominating to you some sister sites that choose accurately every book they present. This way you can easily find the books and texts of our predecessors which some people tried to hide and conceal, but Allah will complete His guidance, even if biased people dislike.

We will mention some of the books, from these sites, that sheikh Fakhr Eldin quoted from in his books and lessons. More information about these sites are in the library page in our main site. 

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Books of Imam at-Tirmizi:

Sunan ibn Magah

The book of Sunan ibn Magah is by Hafiz Abo-Abdullah Mohamed ibn Magah. Magah is the title of his father who was a great Imam, accurate and accepted unanimously. The book is explained by as-Sanadi, Imam Aboel-Hasan al-Hayqi, known as as-Sanadi, died 1138H. nadi said that his comments were only for adjusting the words, strange things and grammar. he also said that this book is one of the six main books of Hadith. It contained many special matters that was only attributed to it. Imam al-Busayri, died 840H, collected most of these special matter in the book the lamp of the lantern, and as-Sanadi took from it in his comments. as-Sayouti quoted in the footnotes of the book from ar-Rafie that the book was shown to Abo-Zar'a ar-Razi and he liked it, and said that it did not miss except in 3 Hadith. also in the footnotes of an-Nasa'i, he said that he narrated from some men who were accused of lying and faking. There is a story about ibn Taher: he said that Abo-Zar'a said: it may have no more than 30 Hadith with some weakness. however, in the book of the reasons by Abo-Hatim, it showed that Abo-Zar'a judged many Hadiths of it as null or rejected. but most scholars agreed that the book of Sunan ibn-Magah is the sixth book of the Sahih books.

The researcher only narrated the Hadiths of the book against the other of the six books and numbered it according to the Indexed Dictionary and the Masterpiece of the Nobels.

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The Knowledgeable Glorious Scholars

Thanks to Allah who has made the knowledgeable scholars successors to the prophets to inherit their manners and became role models for everyone. Many people got strayed and got away from the guidance of the Beloved [PPBUH] when they did not take the great old knowledgeable scholars of this nation as their source of knowledge, instead they became addicted to taking from the recent simple ones. This way they got away from what their righteous ancestors used to have and what was settled by the Islamic nation for decades and centuries.

The Prophet [PPBUH] said: (People are still in blessing as long as they took their knowledge from their knowledgeable elders. When they start taking from their young unknowledgeable ones then they are doomed). The Prophet [PPBUH] also said: (This religion is knowledge, so be careful who to get from). He [PPBUH] also said: (When the knowledgeable scholars die, people will choose their leaders from unknowledgeable ones. When they ask them, they will answer without knowledge, so they will lead astray and mislead everyone, and there is no strength no power but from Allah).

sayydi Fakhreddin Mohamed Osman [AAH] said:

[If you were asked: What is the book? It is       from what is narrated by the great scholars] (qasida 15:47)

All scholars agreed that no one can disparage any word from the Prophet [PPBUH] or judge it as being fabricated or weakly narrated, unless he has an absolute proof from Qur'an or Sunna of the Prophet [PPBUH]. From the start of the first century and up until now, great scholars [AAT] have taken the mission of preserving Turath of our true religion [inherited knowledge from the Prophet, His companions, and our great scholars]. They have been preserving it the same way as the Prophet [PPBUH] wanted them to do. That is how the authentic Hadith, true interpretations, and Historical events from the start of Mohammad' Message till our current day, were preserved and predicated honestly and truthfully. One of the main glorious scholars, with a great resume, is:

Imam at-Tabarany [AAH]

He is Aboel-Qasim Soliman ibn Ahmed ibn Ayyub at-Tabarany [AAH], born 260H. Abo-Bakr Mohamed ibn Ahmed ibn Abdel-Rahman [AAH] said:

Soliman ibn Ahmed ibn Ayyub is more famous than to need evidence for his superiority and knowledge. He narrated Hadith in Asbahan for 60 years, so fathers heard him then sons then grandsons and he [AAH] was widely knowledgeable and had many books. It was said that he lost his sight in the end of his days, so he used to said "the atheists bewitched me". One day al-Hasan al-Attar, his student, said, examining him: how many trunks are there in the ceiling? He said: I do not know about the number of trunks but the engraving on my ring is Soliman ibn Ahmed.

Al-Attar also said that he said: Who is that coming? He said: Abo-Zarr. He meant his son. He said: not al-Ghafary. Abo-Bakr Ahmed ibn Musa ibn Mardawiyah said: I heard Aboel-Qasim at-Tabarany saying: I came to Asbahan, the first time, on 290H. Then he came a second time on 310H. he left Tabariyah of Sham to Asbahan and listened there to whom he caught up with, from its sheikhs, like: Ibrahim ibn Mohamed, known as Na'ilah, Mahmoud ibn Ahmed ibn al-Farag, known as al-Wadnakabazy, Ibrahim ibn Metwaih Imam Abo-Ishaq, Galis al-Mazni, ar-Rabie ibn Soliman, who was Imam of the old mosque, Mohamed ibn al-Abbas al-Akhram, who was one of the great Hafiz, Mohamed ibn Yahya ibn Mandah Abo-Abdullah, and many other great scholars. He also narrated from a countless number of the stars and the great one.

In his second coming, Abo-Ali Ahmed ibn Mohamed ibn Rostum, the worker [the ruler] their. He held him, settled him in the city, gave him a good help, and made him a salary from the house of money, which he kept receiving, through out the Dailamy State, until he died. Abo-Bakr ibn Abo-Ali al-Adl [AAH] said: my father asked at-Tabarany [AAH] about his many Hadith, and he answered: I use to sleep on the straw mats for 30 years.

Of the gifts and grace of Allah to Imam Aboel-Qasim at-Tabarany is his sleep visions about what puzzled him of Hadith and other things. Anas ibn Malik [AAH] said that the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (the message and prophecy has ended, so no messenger or prophet comes after me). That was hard on people, so he said (but there are the bringers of good tiding). They said: O, Messenegr of Allah, what are the bringers of good tiding? He said (the vision of the Muslim is a part of the prophecy). Hamid ibn Abdel-Rahman narrated that a man asked Ebadah about the verse [Theirs are good tidings in the worldly life and in the hereafter] Yunis 10:64. Ebadah said: I asked the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] about it and he said (it is the good vision that a believer sees for himself or someone sees it for him, which is a talk that your Lord talks to his slave in his sleep).

Aboel-Qasim [AAH] said:

I saw the Prophet [PPBUH] in my sleep in Ahawwal 323H in Yazymudiyah, Asbahan and its Mehraniyahin a desert of its deserts. The pavilions of the Prophet [PPBUH] were squared and covered with white covers, with good white color. His wives were in the pavilions, I saw Aisha protruding from one of the pavilions, with her face toward the pavilion, wearing a vey white gown. A child passed by her, so she prayed for him. So I heard her eloquence but I did not see her face. I came to the Prophet [PPBUH] and he was sitting on a chair protruding to all pavilions. I kissed him between the eyes and on the shoulders then I sat in front of him. I prayed for myself and for the believers and Muslims, men and women, a lot of prayers, the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] looking with his face toward me, smiling with his canine teeth not showing. I said: O, Messenger of Allah tell me about the Hadith of Abo-Hazim from Sahl ibn Saad that you said (the believer is an intimate, there is no good in that who does not accept intimacy or becomes intimate to others). So he made a signal with his hand as if it is weak. I said: O Messenger of Allah, tell me about the Hadith of ash-Showaby from an-Numan ibn Bashir that you said (the likes of the believers in their kindness and mercy to each other, are like the body when an organ of it suffers, then the whole body suffers for it with fever and staying up). He [PPBUH] waved with his hand: Sahih, Sahih, Sahih. The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said to me (say al-Tashahhud) [the testimony of the prayers]. I told him al-Tashahhud of ibn Mas'oud to its end. Then the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said to me again (say al-Tashahhud). So I said the Hadith of ibn Abbas (Attahiyyat attaybat almubarakat assalawat lellah. Asslamu alika ayyuha alnabi wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh. Asslamu alina wa ala ebadullahi assalihin. Ash-hadu alla ilaha illa Allah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammad Abdahu wa rasulahu). The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (that is al-Tashahhud, that is al-Tashahhud, that is al-Tashahhud). Then a man passed by him and said: O, Messenger of Allah, tell me about Mo'awiah. He said (He was not weak in his religion).

An-Numan ibn Bashir [AAH] narrated that the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (the likes of the believers in their kindness and mercy to each other, are like the body when a thing of it suffers, then the whole body suffers for it with fever and staying up). At-Tabarany [AAH] said: I saw the Prophet [PPBUH] in my sleep, between Asbahan and its city and I said 'O, Messenger of Allah, an-Numan ibn Bashir narrates this Hadith from you'. He said (it is Sahih) three times.

Ahmed ibn Gafar al-Faqih said that he heard Aboel-Qasim at-Tabarany [AAH] saying that when Abo-Ali ibn Rostum came from Fares he visited him. Then some worker came to him and poured 500 Dirhams on his leg. When he went out, he said: carry this Aboel-Qasim. So I took it and I stayed talking to him until his daughter, Om-Adnan came and poured 500 Dirham over his leg, then I stood up. He said: Where to, o, Aboel-Qasim? I said: I stood up because you would say that I sat just for this. He said: Carry this too. At the end of my staying with him he said something about Abo-Bakr and Omar [AAT], so I left and I never went back.

Abdan used to not talk about anything in his sitting and say: until the Shamy comes. He meant at-Tabarany. They said that once they were waiting for him, and he came with some strangers and carrying a pack of books and stained with dirt from the camels.

From his merits and virtues [AAH] are leaving the pride for seeking the knowledge in spite of his high rank, wide knowledge, and the respect from his sheikhs to him in all sittings and gatherings.

They say that Abo-Ahmed al-Assal said: I heard 20,000 from at-Tabarany, Ibrahim ibn Mohamed ibn Hamza heard 30,000 Hadith from him, and Aboel-Sheikh heard 40,000 Hadith. Master ibn al-Ameid said: I never would have thought that there is anything in this world sweeter than the presidentship and the ministry that I have, until I saw the study of Soliman ibn Ahmed at-Tabarany and Abo-Bakr al-Gu'aby in my presence. As at-Tabarany overcame al-Gu'aby with his memorization, and al-Gu'aby overcame at-Tabarany with his intelligence and the smartness of the people of Baghdad, until their voices were raised and no one of them was wining the other. Al-Gu'aby said: I have a Hadith that only I have it in this world. At-Tabarany said: alright, say it. So he said: Abo Khalifa said from Soliman ibn Ayyub … and stated the Hadith. at-Tabarany said: I am Soliman ibn Ayyub, and Abo-Khalifa heard it from me, hear it from me to have higher ascription, as you are narrating from Abo-Khalifa from me. Al-Gu'aby was ashamed and at-Tabarany won. Ibn al-Ameid said: I wished I left my place in the ministry and presidency and never had it for being at-Tabarany, and I was happy as he was for that Hadith.

Of his famous narrations:

Ibn Omar [AAH] said: the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (He who makes the Azan twelve times then paradise will be for him). It was mentioned at the end of this Hadith that it was narrated by Abo-Khalifa al-Gamhy from at-Tabarany [AAH]. It was also narrated from him from Abdullah ibn Gafar [AAH] that: when Abo-Talib died, the Prophet [PPBUH] went to at-Ta'if walking and called them to Islam. They did not accept him, he left them. He came to the shadow of a tree and prayed two Rak'at then said (O, Allah, I complain to you the weakness of my force, the lacking of my solution, and the contempt of the people to me, o, You Most Merciful. To whom you let my matter be? To an enemy who is frowning me? Or to a relative to whom You gave my control. If You are no angry with me, then I do not care. Except that Your good health, is wider for me. I ask You by the Light of Your Face which lights all the darkness, and fixed the whole matters of the worldly life and hereafter, that You protect me from Your anger or discontent. You have the blame over me until you are satisfied. And there is no power except by You). Abo-Khalifa al-Fadl ibn al-Habbab al-Gamhy died on 305H. at-Tabarany lived 55 yeays after him. It was said that Abdan narrated from him also, and he died on 306H. also some of the leading Hadith people narrated from him, like: ibn Oqda, Abo-Ali as-Sahhaf, Abo-Abdullah ibn Khafif, and others and a countless many of the later ones.

Ibn as-Saryy said: I heard Aboel-Abbas ibn Oqda on the year 323H. I was hearing from him the virtues of Ahl al-Baid. He asked me about Aboel-Qasim at-Tabarany, he said: Do you know him? I said: No. He said: Praised be Allah. You have some one like that in your country and you do not hear from him, and you come to hurt me in Kufa. In the past I heard with him from great sheikhs. He heard from me and I heard from him. I do not know of any one who know Hadith or its ascription better than him.

Abo-Ali as-Sahhaf narrated on 333H, two Hadith from Aboel-Qasim at-Tabarany: one from Garir [AAH] that the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (you will see your Lord as you see the moon, you will not be wronged in seeing Him). The second Hadith is from Abo-Mas'oud al-Ansary that the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (the sun and the moon are two signs from Allah, if you see them, pray until they are cleared).

He narrated from Salman al-Farsi [AAH] that the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (No one enters paradise except with a passport: in the name of Allah the All-Beneficent the All-Merciful. This is a letter from Allah to So and So. Enter him high paradise whereof its clusters are in easy reach). He narrated from Omar ibn al-Khattab [AAH] the Hadith of the lizard: the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] was sitting among his companions, when an Arab [a Bedouin] from Bani Salim came. This Arab has captured a lizard and put it in his sleeve to take it to his saddlebags. Then he saw a grouping, so he said: to whom is this grouping? They said to him: it is to that one who clams to be prophet. He went through the people and came to the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] and said: O, Muhammad, there is no one born by women more lying and hated than you. If it was not that I fear my people, they would say I am hasty, I would have killed you and made everyone happy. Omar said: Let me kill him, o, Messenger of Allah. the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (Did not you know that the tolerant man is almost a prophet). The Arab turned to the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] and said: I swear by Allat-wal-Ozza I would not believe in you. The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said to him (O, Arab, what made you say so? You said not the truth, and did not respect my sitting). The Arab said with sarcasm: Do you also talk to me? By Allat-wal-Ozza I would not believe in you, unless this lizard believes in you.

He brought the lizard out of his sleeve and put it in front of the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] and said: If this lizard believed in you, I would. The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (O, Lizard)! Then the lizard talked in a clear Arabic tongue that everyone understood: O, Messenger of the Lord of all worlds, I answer you and may happiness be yours. The Messenger of Allah said to it (Who do you worship?) It said: the One whose throne is in the heaven, in earth is His kingdom, in sea is His way, in paradise is His mercy, and in hell is His torment. The Messenger said (then who am I, o, lizard?) It said: You are the Messenger of the Lord of the worlds, and the last of the prophets. Those who believe you has won, and those who did not, have lost. The Arab said: I testify that: there is no god but Allah, and I testify that you are truly the Messenger of Allah. By Allah, when I came to you, there was nothing on earth more hateful to me than you. And by Allah, you are now more beloved to me than myself and my father. I believed in you with my hair and skin, my interior and exterior, and my secrecy and openness. The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (Thanks to Allah who guided you to this religion that high and nothing is higher than it. Allah does not accept it without prayers, and no prayers without Qur'an). The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] taught him al-Hamdu-lellah and qul-Howa-Allah-Ahad. The Arab said: O, Messenger of Allah, by Allah, I have not heard anything simple or poetry better than this. The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said to him (These are the words of Allah and not poetry. If you read qul-Howa-Allah-Ahad twice it will be as if you read two thirds of Qur'an, and if you read qul-Howa-Allah-Ahad three times, it would be as if you read the whole Qur'an). The Arab said: What a great God our God is. He accepts few and gives much.

Then the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (give the Arab), so they gave him until he was spoiled. Abdel-Rahman ibn Ouf said: O, Messenger of Allah, I want to give him a female camel with which I approach to Allah, Almighty. It is bigger than the Arab camel and less than the Bakhtian one, and it is pregnant. The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] said (you described what you give. I will describe to you what Allah will give you as a reword). He said: Yes. He said (You will get a female camel from a hollow pearl, with legs of green aquamarine. Its nick is from yellow aquamarine. It is carrying a sedan. On the sedan there is silk brocade. It will pass you over as-Sirat [the path] like the swift lightening). The Arab went out from the presence of the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH], then he met a thousand Arabs riding a thousand back animals with a thousand spears and a thousand swords. He asked them: where are you aiming to? They said: fighting this lying one who clams to be a prophet. The Arab said: I testify that: there is no god but Allah, and that Mohammad is the Messenger of Allah. They said: then you apostatized. He said: I did not. Then he told them this Hadith, so they all said: there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is the Messenger of Allah. this new reach the Prophet [PPBUH] so he received them in a gown. They dismounted their rides kissing anything they met from him and saying: there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is the Messenger of Allah. they said: command us, o, Messenger of Allah! he said (go join under the flag of Khalid ibn al-Walid). So there was no tribe of the Arabs that had one thousand believers at once except bani-Salim. At-Tabarany said that it was not narrated, this complete, except by Mohamed ibn abdel-Aala from Dawud ibn Abo-Hend.

As-Sahib Ismail ibn Abbad said: we found in at-Tabarany Dictionary what we missed in all countries with good ascription and strong sources.

What was found of his books:

They counted 106 books at least for him. From it: the big dictionary in 200 parts - the medium dictionary in 24 parts - the small dictionary in 7 parts - the Musnad of the ten in 30 parts - the Musnad of the Shamin in 10 parts - book of rare in 10 parts - the knowing of the companions - the benefits in 10 parts - the interpretation - the ascriptions of the interpretation of Bakr ibn Sahl - the signs of the prophecy in 10 parts - the prayer in 10 parts - the Sunna in 10 parts - clarifying the disbelief of who said the Qur'an is a creature - the answer to the isolators - the answer to al-Gahmiya - the prayer to the Prophet [PPBUH] - the strange of Malik's Hadith – the commandment of the Prophet to Abo-Hurayra - the caliphate of Abo-Bakr and Omar – the virtues of the Arabs, Osman, and Ali [AAT] - the collector of the merits of the Prophet's descriptions [PPBUH]… and others.

His passing away and his sons:

Hafiz Abo-Bakr Ahmed ibn Musa said that Soliman ibn Ahmed ibn Ayyub at-Tabarany passed away on Saturday, and was buried on Sunday with two nights left of Zul-Qi'dah, in the year 360H. he was buried on the door of the city of Gi known as Teyrah, beside Hamamh ibn Abo-Hamamh [AAH]. His Maqam is well known and visited. He had a son named Mohamed and called Abo-Zarr, and a daughter named Fatima, her mother is Asmaa bent Ahmed ibn Mohamed ibn Shadra al-Khatib. It was mentioned that she used to fast a day after day and she did not sleep of night except a little [AAH]. She had sons. As for Mohamed, he died in Ragab of year 399H. his shrine is just beside his father [AAT]. Some of the leading group narrated from Mohamed, like Abo-Ali ar-Rustaqy, Abo-Tahir ibn Orwa, Abo-Ahmed al-Attar, Ali ibn Ahmed ibn Mahran, Abo-Saad ibn Qamgah, Ali ibn al-Husain al-Eskafy, Ali ibn Saied al Baqqal, and others and from the late one a group also.

Written by G. Salah

Translated by Ahmed